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‎The Viking.‎

‎Harvesting the Margins of the Viking World. Decentralizing Economies in Late Iron Age Fennoscandia‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 246, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:32 b/w, 37 col., 9 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503620183.‎

‎Summary Viking Age research has long been shaped by an 'agricultural paradigm' - a framework that centres economic and social development in the fertile plains of southern and central Scandinavia. This dominant model has marginalized alternative subsistence strategies and rendered northern regions peripheral, both geographically and conceptually. This volume challenges that orthodoxy through a new focus on the economic and cultural significance of Late Iron Age Fennoscandia. Gathering fifteen chapters from established scholars in the field, this work explores how environmentally diverse and often-overlooked northern areas were not passive peripheries. Instead they were active arenas of innovation, connectivity, and identity formation. Contributors examine mixed economies and subsistence strategies, and the movement of people, materials, and ideas across forested outlands, coastal zones, and inland trade networks. From indigenous agency to interregional exchange, this volume decentres traditional narratives to offer a more nuanced and inclusive understanding of economic life in the Late Iron Age. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Setting the Scene: Shifting Late Iron Age Geography Kristin Ilves and Charlotta Hillerdal 2. Challenging Marginality: Nuancing the Agricultural Paradigm of Viking Age Fennoscandia Charlotta Hillerdal Conceptualizing a New Viking Age North 3. Fuzzy Boundaries: Defining the Wilderness in Finnish Scholarship Tuija Kirkinen 4. Historical and Mythical Northern Land: Dialoguing between the Viking Age and the Present in Northern Finland Vesa-Pekka Herva and Risto Nurmi 5. The Rise of an Economic Elite - Societal Changes in the North Induced by Viking Age Trade Networks Jari-Matti Kuusela 6. Maritime Transformations in Northern Norway during the Viking Age and Medieval Period: Innovation and Independence on the Edge of Europe Stephen Wickler 7. Sámi in the North - Central Actors in Viking Age Trade Ingela Bergman 8. Trade and Subsistence in Northeastern Fennoscandia: The Northern River Routes and the White Sea Coast Hanna-Leena Puolakka 9. The Outland as an Economic Resource Base: Exploitation in the Norse Periphery Irene Baug Diversifying Economy and Connectivity 10. Hunters and Combmakers, Mountains and Markets: Problematizing the Movement of Reindeer Antler in Viking-Age Norway Steven P. Ashby 11. The Riches behind the Langeid Sword: Viking Age Iron Production and Trade Kjetil Loftsgarden 12. From Quarry to Pot: Soapstone in Local and Regional Networks Eva Svensson, Lena Grandin, Erik Ogenhall, Stefan Nilsson, Ellinor Larsson, Hans Olsson, and Annie Johansson 13. Shears and Frontiers: Pastoral Grave Goods in Viking Age Sweden and their Implications Samanta Rose 14. Was it for Iron? Andreas Hennius 15. Clandestine Clay? Explorations into Late Iron Age Religious Identity Creation in an Island Setting Kristin Ilves, Kim Darmark, and Elisabeth Holmqvist‎

‎Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Studies of the Viking Age‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 365 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 10 col., 1 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503592961.‎

‎Summary What happens when scholars cross outside the perceived 'boundaries' of their discipline? What problems arise when a scholar trained in one field employs materials or methodologies from an adjacent subject area, engaging with new sources, research methodologies, and traditions, and how can such issues be resolved? Taking as its starting point the increasing shift towards interdisciplinarity seen within Viking-age studies, this collection of essays aims to explore the benefits and pitfalls that can arise from crossing disciplinary borders in this area, and to gain new knowledge about how to address issues that have occurred in previous examples of interdisciplinary combinations. The volume draws together contributions from authors in different disciplines, among them philology, history, archaeology, literary studies, folklore studies and history of religion, in order to hold a constructive and multi-perspective discussion on the benefits and issues arising from interdisciplinary research in studies of the Viking Age. Together, these chapters aim to bridge the gap that often exists between scholars from adjacent fields of research, and in doing so, to stimulate the trend in interdisciplinary approaches to research that can improve our understanding of the past. TABLE OF CONTENTS Interdisciplinarity in Viking Age Studies. An Introduction Daniel Sävborg Interdisciplinary ? Multidisciplinary ? Transdisciplinary. Navigating the Wandering Rocks of Trending Terminology on Changeable Tides of Discipline Ideology Frog The Legend of the Invitation of Varangian Princes in the Light of Interdisciplinarity Elena Melnikova Saga Studies and Slavic-Finnish Archaeology: 'Bilateral Cooperation' Tatjana N. Jackson Crossing Borders between Literature and Toponymy. The Narrative Landscape of Hvolsvöllur and its Implications Matthias Egeler Women and Swords in the Viking Age. An Interdisciplinary Study of an Archaeological and Textual Motif Leszek Gardela 'Many big ships and excellently well fitted?'. A Case Study of Norse Vessels in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar c. 1204-1263 William Pidzamecky Interdisciplinary Research in the Study of Human Sacrifices in Late Iron Age Scandinavia Klas Wikström af Edholm The Royal Erfi-Feast, Inauguration at the High-Seat, and Genealogical Knowledge in Viking Age Scandinavia. An Interdisciplinary Approach Olof Sundqvist Some Thoughts on the Category of Religion in Research of Viking Age Scandinavia Andreas Nordberg Molding Myth and Memory. The Plasticity of Old Norse/Icelandic Traditional Tales Annette Lassen Old Norse Religion and the Troublesome Quest for an Interdisciplinary Approach Henrik Janson‎

‎Making the Profane Sacred in the Viking Age. Essays in Honour of Stefan Brink‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xii + 336 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:23 b/w, 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586045.‎

‎Summary The term 'sacred' is often used in relation to the pre-Christian religions of Iron Age and medieval Scandinavia. But what did sacred really mean? What made something sacred for people? Why was one particular person, place, act, or text perceived to hold a sacral quality, while others remained profane? And what impact did such sacrality have on wider society, culture, politics, and economics, both for contemporaries and for future generations? This volume seeks to engage with such questions by drawing together essays from many of the pre-eminent scholars of Old Norse in order to reinterpret the concept of the sacred in the Viking Age North and to challenge pre-existing frameworks for understanding the sacred in this space and time. Including essays from Margaret Clunies Ross, Stephen Mitchell, John Lindow, and Judy Quinn, it is a treasury of commentary and information that ranges widely across theories and sources of evidence to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship. This edited collection is dedicated to Stefan Brink, an outstanding figure in the study of early Scandinavian language, society, and culture, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field of Old Norse studies. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - OLOF SUNDQVIST, DECLAN TAGGART, AND IRENE GARCÍA LOSQUIÑO Part I: Understanding Sacredness What Does heilagr Mean in Old Norse? - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS Landscape - Sacred and Profane - JENS PETER SCHJØDT Sacred and Profane, Visual and Lived-in: A Note on some Creative Tensions in the Landscape - MATS WIDGREN Part II: Sacredness and Space Ritual Places, Sacral Place-names, and Wetlands: Some Spatial and Archaeological Contexts from the Baltic Island of Öland - JAN-HENRIK FALLGREN Ritual Space and Territorial Boundaries in Scandinavia - TORUN ZACHRISSON Karlevi: A Viking Age Harbour on Öland - PER VIKSTRAND Stafgarþar Revisited - ANDERS ANDRÉN Sacredness Lost: On the Variable Status of Churches in the Middle Ages - BERTIL NILSSON Part III: The Sacred and the Text Tradition and Ideology in Eddic Poetry - JOHN MCKINNELL Sacred Hero, Holy Places: The Eddic Helgi-Tradition - CAROLYNE LARRINGTON Fifth-Column Mother: Týr's Parentage according to Hymiskviða - JUDY QUINN Part IV: Sacredness Across Contexts From Legend to Myth? - JOHN LINDOW The Landscape of Thor Worship in Sweden - TARRIN WILLS Conversion, Popular Religion, and Syncretism: Some Reflections -ANNE-SOFIE GRÄSLUND Swine, Swedes, and Fertility Gods - BO GRÄSLUND The Goddesses in the Dark Waters - TERRY GUNNELL Part V: Afterlives of Sacredness Valh?ll and the Swedish 'Valhall' Mountains of the Dead - ANDREAS NORDBERG Place-names, Periphrasis, and Popular Tradition: Odinic Toponyms on Samsø - STEPHEN A. MITCHELL Sacred Sites and Central Places: Experiences of Multidisciplinary Research Projects - CHARLOTTE FABECH AND ULF NÄSMAN A Bibliography of Stefan Brink's Publications, Compiled with Assistance from Per Vikstrand‎

‎The Viking Age in Eastern Europe in Numismatics Monuments of the Eighth-11th Cen‎

‎The Viking Age in Eastern Europe in Numismatics Monuments of the Eighth-11th Centuries In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Epokha vikingov v Vostochnoy Evrope v pamyatnikakh numizmatiki VIII-XI vv.. IV International Numismatic Conference The Viking Age in Eastern Europe in Numismatics Monuments of the VIII-XI Centuries Stara Ladoga St. Petersburg 14-16 April 2017: materials of reports and reports. SKUalb26ddb6c8651523ab.‎

‎Sjovold, Thorleif. The viking ships in Oslo. In English /Sjovold, Thorleif. The‎

‎Sjovold, Thorleif. The viking ships in Oslo. In English /Sjovold, Thorleif. The viking ships in Oslo. Oslo Universitetets Oldsaksamling 1985. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKUalb3afdd8fdf198eb6b‎